Reading

The 7th Annual New Voices Festival, a celebration of emerging writers, is taking place Wed., April 17th to Fri., April 19th.

The 7th Annual New Voices Festival, a celebration of emerging writers, is taking place Wed., April 17th to Fri., April 19th.

This Thursday come to our panels, reading, and music perfomance all in the Handwerker Gallery as listed below:

Panel 12:10 - 1 PM

Choose Your Own Adventure: What does it mean to identify as a writer?

This panel will be moderated by IC Economics Professor Jen Tennant and will feature writers: Sarah Viren, Clare Barron, Javier Zamora, and Aja Gabel.

Panel 2:35 - 3:30 PM

Citizen-Scribes: Is all writing a political act?

Join Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award winner Ken Liu, who will be presenting on and reading from his work.

Provost Dr. La Jerne Cornish will read the book "I Am Jazz" - the story of a transgender child based upon the real life experiences of Jazz Jennings - in Clark Lounge, Campus Center on Thursday February 28 at 2 pm. A discussion of the children's book and other new titles including "Julián Is a Mermaid" and "They She He Me: Free to Be!" will follow, facilitated by Luca Maurer. Refreshments will be provided.

David Lazar is the author of three essay collections — I’ll Be Your Mirror, Occasional Desire, and The Body of Brooklyn — and the prose poetry collection Powder Town. The editor of several anthologies on the essay — among them Truth in Nonfictionand After Montaigne — he also is the founding editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika. Lazar teaches in the undergraduate and M.F.A. programs in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago.

Leslie Jamison is the best-selling author of the novel The Gin Closet, the essay collection The Empathy Exams, and The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, which blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage. She currently is an assistant professor at the Columbia University School of the Arts MFA program, where she directs the nonfiction concentration.

A veteran of the Vietnam War, Bruce Weigl has published more than a dozen poetry collections — among them The Abundance of Nothing, The Unraveling Strangeness, Sweet Lorain, and Song of Napalm — in addition to the memoir The Circle of Hanh. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Weigl has received the Robert Creeley Award, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and the Poet’s Prize from the Academy of American Poets, among other distinctions.